Rajasree (Raji) Swaminathan
This illustrated Chemistry book featuring the Halogens is the third one of The Magical Periodic Table and The Element Girls series which brings the elements of the periodic table to life to middle and high school students. In this book series, every element is depicted as a girl or woman who tells her own story based on the element’s discovery, uses, physical, and chemical properties.The narrator is Atom, who loves to draw, tell stories, imagine, and explore science along with her dog Electron and her friends Ion, Mole, Valence, Exo, and Endo. She receives a magical periodic table as a birthday present which transports her and her friends to each individual element’s “environment” where they meet the colorful element characters who tell them their personal stories.In this series, in addition to travelling to a studio in Los Angeles, an auditorium at the University of California in Berkeley, and Pfeiffer Beach at Big Sur in California, they also travel to the Dead Sea in Israel to meet the elements. Additionally, they enjoy swimming in an infinity pool with a plexiglass bottom in a large city somewhere in the world!Along with the element’s story, this book also contains a drawing of each element, Chemistry vocabulary words, check yourself questions, and resources.